Other translations
American Standard Version
A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Like a dripping that drips abundantly on a day of heavy rain, so is a contentious woman.
Darby Bible Translation
A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)
Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike:
English Standard Version Journaling Bible
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
God's Word
Constantly dripping water on a rainy day is like a quarreling woman.
Holman Christian Standard Bible
An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike.
International Standard Version
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.
NET Bible
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.
New American Standard Bible
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;
New International Version
A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;
New Living Translation
A quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping on a rainy day.
Webster's Bible Translation
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
The World English Bible
A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
EasyEnglish Bible
A wife who is always arguing with you is as bad as rain that never stops falling.
Young‘s Literal Translation
A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,
New Life Version
An arguing woman is like water falling drop by drop on a day it is raining.
The Voice Bible
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a wife’s bickering are very much alike:
Living Bible
A constant dripping on a rainy day and a cranky woman are much alike!
New Catholic Bible
A constant dripping on a rainy day is much like a nagging wife;
Legacy Standard Bible
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;
Jubilee Bible 2000
A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Christian Standard Bible
An endless dripping on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike;
Amplified Bible © 1954
A continual dripping on a day of violent showers and a contentious woman are alike;
New Century Version
A quarreling wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
The Message
A nagging spouse is like the drip, drip, drip of a leaky faucet; You can’t turn it off, and you can’t get away from it.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™
Constantly dripping water on a rainy day and a nagging wife are alike.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
Good News Translation®
A nagging wife is like water going drip-drip-drip on a rainy day.
Wycliffe Bible
Roofs dropping in the day of cold, and a woman full of chiding, be likened together. (Roofs dripping rain on a cold day, and a woman full of arguments, or of bickering, be quite similar.)
Contemporary English Version
The steady dripping of rain and the nagging of a wife are one and the same.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
Common English Bible © 2011
The constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
Amplified Bible © 2015
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious (quarrelsome) woman are alike;
English Standard Version Anglicised
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a quarrelsome wife are alike;
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome wife;
New American Standard Bible
A constant dripping on a day of steady rain And a contentious woman are alike;
The Expanded Bible
A ·quarreling [contentious] wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
Tree of Life Version
Continual dripping on a day of steady rain and a contentious wife are alike—
Revised Standard Version
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
New International Reader's Version
A nagging wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm.
BRG Bible
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Complete Jewish Bible
A leak that keeps dripping on a rainy day and the nagging of a wife are the same —
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike;
Orthodox Jewish Bible
A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a quarrelsome isha are alike;
Names of God Bible
Constantly dripping water on a rainy day is like a quarreling woman.
Modern English Version
A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;
Easy-to-Read Version
A complaining wife is like water that never stops dripping on a rainy day.
International Children’s Bible
A quarreling wife is as bothersome as a continual dripping on a rainy day.
Lexham English Bible
Dripping constantly on a day of heavy rain and a woman of contention are alike.
New International Version - UK
A quarrelsome wife is like the dripping of a leaky roof in a rainstorm;